{"id":5661,"date":"2009-01-05T06:58:36","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T11:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=5661"},"modified":"2009-01-05T06:58:36","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T11:58:36","slug":"afp-former-malaysia-pm-calls-for-boycott-of-us-dollar-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=5661","title":{"rendered":"AFP: Former Malaysia PM calls for boycott of US dollar, products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KUALA LUMPUR (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5heP8F3Rux8PcFW_H9Y0xsgYTtOfg\">AFP<\/a>)<\/strong>\u2014 Former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad on Monday called for a global boycott of the US dollar and US-made products, including Coca-Cola, in protest over Washington&#8217;s backing of Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Mahathir, who during his two decades in power was a leading voice in the Muslim world, said people had to take action against the United States over its support for Israel, which is conducting a military offensive in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you stop accepting US currency, the US can&#8217;t trade and can&#8217;t make any money, it will become very poor and it will have to stop the production of more and more weapons in order to kill people,&#8221; he told a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We should not be buying all these weapons from the US, we can buy from the Russians if we must have aeroplanes and things like that,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People must act&#8230; they won&#8217;t die if they don&#8217;t drink Coca-Cola.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5heP8F3Rux8PcFW_H9Y0xsgYTtOfg\">Read the report<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR (AFP)\u2014 Former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad on Monday called for a global boycott of the US dollar and US-made products, including Coca-Cola, in protest over Washington&#8217;s backing of Israel. Mahathir, who during his two decades in power &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=5661\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-1tj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5661"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5663,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661\/revisions\/5663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}